Imovie 10 modify ken burns

The new version of iMovie is driving me CRAZY. I had a project nearly completed before the upgrade, now the Ken Burns effect on every photo has been modified. Worst of all, when I try to modify them now, they seem to be "locked." When I click on the Ken Burns Effect for a photo, it highlights the Start and End frames, but I can't change them. Is there no way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

YES! This solved the problem with the fixed/locked ken burns settings.
Changing the OS X system language to ENGLISH makes it possible to edit ken burns settings.
Still, this is a bug and it needs a fix.

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IMovie HD6 Ken Burns Effect Not working

Hi. I've been using iMovie HD6 with my old iMacG4. We used Ken Burns Effect a lot with no problems.
I just got a 1 year old G5 iMAC with Intel Dual Processor and it has the latest versions of Tiger and iMovie 06. Everything works but the Ken Burns Effect. When I use the Ken Burns effect, it shows up when I set it up but when I push the button to make iMovie render the effect, the clinic does not render. It looks like the computer is about to render the effect but nothing happens and I need to force quit iMovie to do anything else. On the set-up of the Ken Burns effect, the preview shows the Ken Burns effect working.
I had a previous version of iLife O6 so I tried deleting the iMovie from the application and reloading the iLife 06 but this did not help. Because I don't have iLife 08, I cannot download a version of iMovie O6 to give this a try.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help, Andy

Since you just got a one year old computer, I would do the following:
1. Close iMovie and trash the file com.apple.iMovie.plist located in User/Library/Preferences. iMovie will create a new .plist file on relaunch.
2. Before you relaunch iMovie, do a permissions repair using the Disk Utility app on your Mac.
3. Make sure that you have sufficient free disk space for iMovie to operate efficiently -- 25GB is recommended.
4. Update iMovie and Quicktime to current versions, and do a permissions repair afterwards.
5. If you have any 3rd party plug-ins, or Quicktime plug-ins, move them to another folder to temporarily disable them.
With the Ken Burns effect, do not empty the trash until your project is finished. Emptying the trash will cause you to be unable to edit a photo to which the Ken Burns effect has been applied.
Hope the above helps.

IMOVIE THEMES, KEN BURNS EFFECT & VIDEO FX RENDER PROBLEM

Hi,
For some reason I can't seem to get any of the themes to render within iMovie HD 6, or the Ken Burn's Effect to render. The render bar just stays in the black & never goes red. I also can't render any of the Quartz Composer Video FX. Here the render actually completes but when you replay the movie the effect doesn't appear. Everything else works fine & I don't have a problem rendering anything else. The weird thing is that all of the above worked fine for me last year so I don't understand why it's giving me a problem now. I can see from this discussion group that quite a few people have experienced the same problem, but there doesn't seem to be one definitive answer. Just so you know, I've tried the following...
- Reinstalling iMovie HD
- Reinstalling QuickTime
- Using Software Update to update to the latest versions of everything
- Repairing disk & disk permissions
- Removing any 3rd party plug-ins for both iMovie & QuickTime
- Deleting the iMovie preferences file
- Emptying the Caches folder
- Moving my iMovie file to the desktop & reopening it from there
- Checking the file formats of my photos & movies are compatible
- Checking my screen is set to millions of colours
- Checking I have more than 10gb of disk space
- Logging in as different user
- Restarting my computer!
If anyone could shed any light on this I would be eternally grateful.
Many thanks,
Ed.

I don't know whether QT 7.5 is your problem. Apple has upgraded that program to 7.5.5, which apparently cured some of the problems with the earlier version.
Some contributors to this forum have downloaded earlier versions of QT from this website:
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/listof_quicktimedownloads.html
in conjunction with another program called Pacifist.

IMovie add Ken Burns to video clip

I did some editing work on a slideshow in iPhoto with audio to make a storybook. After I started to adjust the Ken Burns effect, I realised I could get better results from iMovie which I had not used before. After importing the video clip to iMovie and creating a new project, it will play, just like in iPhoto, with the audio and same times allotted to each photo.
A timeline is shown, at the beginning of which is a small icon showing 4.8m (the actual length of the video clip), although the project information shows as only 4s.
Now I would like to further edit, adding Ken Burns to those photos that I didn't add it to in iPhoto. When I select to adjust, and select crop, I am given no further options. I cannot see how to add Ken Burns. I don't seem to have all the editing options I can see in iMovie tutorials.

Can anyone help me please? Will I need to start my project from the beginning again in iMovie to be able to use Ken Burns?

I made a slide show in imovie using ken burns effect and when i transfer it to idvd the background shimmers. Is there a way around this?

If anyone has done this before and knows how to keep ken burns and lose the shimmer I would appreciate your help.

Add some blur to the image. I know it sounds crazy, but blurring the photo will reduce the flicker on a TV. DVDs are really low res. and by reducing the image detail will help prevent line flicker.

Ken-Burns-Effekt abstellen in iMovie '11

Liebe Leute,
ich besitze iMovie ’11 deutsch – also mit deutschsprachigen Menüs. Die englischsprachigen Hilfeseiten zu diesem Problem habe ich gefunden, jedoch bringen sie mich nicht viel weiter, weil ich die deutschsprachigen Äquivalente der englischsprachigen Menübefehle nicht ohne weiteres finde. Deshalb stelle ich diese Anfrage bewusst auf Deutsch und erbitte eine Antwort, die sich auf die deutschsprachigen Menübefehle bezieht. As I said: The English-language support pages were of no great help to me as a user of the German-language product.
Das ist mein Problem: Ich möchte für das Importieren und Darstellen von Einzelfotos in iMovie den Ken-Burns-Effekt abstellen. Welche Einstellungen muss ich vornehmen?
Dank im Voraus.

artur_from_luenen wrote:
… ich besitze iMovie ’11 deutsch …
… iMovie ist multilingual - läuft Dein System auf English, wäre das gleiche iM auch in English … das nur am Rande
… möchte für das Importieren und Darstellen von Einzelfotos in iMovie den Ken-Burns-Effekt abstellen. Welche Einstellungen muss ich vornehmen?
cmd-J oder unter Ablage/Projekteinstellungen definierst Du wie iM vorgehen soll:
… such Dir die aus, die Du am meisten brauchst. Im Projekt selbst kannst Du natürlich jedem Bild individuelle Eigenschaften zuordnen … das ist hier die Voreinstellung.

I need to do non-constrained crops for Ken Burns effect in photo slide show

I am making photo slide shows in imovie '09. I understand the Ken Burns effect and how to set a start and an end point. I want to use the effect on vertical or portrait mode photos. i would like to have the entire photo displayed in portrait mode and have it zoom in a bit. The problem is The start and end points seem to only be horizontal or landscape mode. I can't ever get the entire image selected. How can I do this?
Thanks,
Tim

You need to add the letterbox (black space) in another application. iMovie's Ken Burns effect will not do it for you. You can do it in Photoshop if you like.
However, there is a way to do it in Automator, and you can do hundreds of vertical photos very quickly. That is the way I do it.
Here is more detail:
There is also a quick way to pad your images without using Photoshop. This method will pad hundreds of images in just a few seconds.
You do it with a tool that comes with OS/X called Automator. It should be in your Applications/Utilities folder.
Automator is basically a workflow tool. It allows you to string together commands and actions into a workflow and then execute the entire sequence at once. If you have Snow Leopard, you can even add these workflows to your contextual menus that come up when you right-click.
There are many workflows that would work to pad your images. Here is an example:
In Automator, start a photo workflow and drag the following actions into the workflow from the Action palettes on the left.
You should have something like:
1)Ask for Photos (You must select one or more photos and hit Select - you can make this easier by putting them in an album beforehand)
2) Copy Finder Items (give it a folder to copy to- so you can find them easily)
3) Pad Images. (put a check mark in "scale image before padding" Pick the pixel dimensions of your project...like 640x480 or 960x540. or 1920x1080
Hit Run and a dialog box will come up asking you to select photos. When you are finished, press SELECT and the Automator script will keep running.
Then at the end you should have padded images in the folder you created in step 2.

Ken Burns issues in FCP X

I have a problem with the Ken Burns Effect in FCP X. In the beginning and end of each clip I use the Ken Burns on has a ramp up and down, or slowly increases speed in the beginning of the clip and slows to a stop at the end of the clip. I want it to just pan and zoom without and slowing or ramping. I have experianced the same effect when using key framing. iMovie's Ken Burns effect doesn't have this same slowing or ramping. Am I missing some setting to turn this added effect off Ken burns and key framing in FCP X? Please Help!!!
Thanks,
Brett

Although I'm not certain, I don't think the Ken Burns effect has the ability to adjust the ease in/ease out settings. I usually prefer to use those, however....here's the solution.
http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/smooth-move-fpx-effect/
Anybody using FCP X needs to get this. A free plugin called Smooth Move. It's like Ken Burns on steroids. The main points:
KB only works on the entire duration of a clip. SM gives you the options to hold at the beginning and/or end of the clip or photo and just move in between. And, I don't know the terms for this, but it does the scaling and positioning in a smooth professional way without the strange glitches if you scale and position at the same time using keyframes. And, best of all for you, it gives the option to make the moves constant or eased. In fact, you have separate ease/constant settings for position, scale, and rotation.
It's that good, and it's free - get it.

Ken Burns vs Photo to Movie test

I did a quick simple test to see how iMovie's Ken Burns and Photo to Movie manage high resolution, high frequency still images as their input:
I made a 3150x1728 (5 megapixel) TIF image. I chose that particular ratio because it completely fills both NTSC and PAL 16:9 frame when imported to iMovie HD 5-6's widescreen project.
I inserted 1 pixel thin horizontal and vertical black stripes at every 100 pixel. That kind of thin (high frequency) lines tend to flicker on a TV unless they are blurred.
Then I imported the still to a widescreen NTSC (I chose NTSC for Karl, Fred, Kirk and other NTSC-geared geeks iMovie HD 6.0.3 project and applied a 2 second 1-5x zoom to it.
I did a similar zoom with Photo to Movie 3.2.2's High Quality export setting and compared the results...
Well, the iMovie zoom-in was quite interesting: at modest zoom factors many stripes were omitted and the stripes disappeared and appeared as the zoom progressed! Some stripes were rendered grayish, but they were always 1 pixel thin (a recipe for flicker on a TV!). Only near the end of the zoom-in, all the stripes appeared and begun to grow thicker (and non-flickery on a TV).
The Photo to Movie zoom-in was much "duller": all stripes were preserved and they were slightly blurred (which prevents flicker on a TV).
The winner: Photo to Movie.
The input TIF and 2 second output .dv files are below (to my surprise the 15 MB input zipped to only 1.8 MB with this material). I turned ON the high quality display for you in the .dv files, but verify that the setting sticks when viewing them with QuickTime Player Pro. You can advance one frame at a time via the left/right arrow keys.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~shmhav/kenburnstest.zip

Discussing DVD playback on a TV, Matti said:
The output that used the original TIF as its input
was full of artifacts and lots of flicker with the
moderate zoom factors. Gaussian blur was also quite
bad while the 875x480 downsampled TIF was very
peaceful. Of course the 875x480 was somewhat fuzzy
with the extreme zoom factors.
Photo To Movie's Higher Quality setting was very
peaceful with practically no flicker on the TV.
I admit that this is an artificial and a very
difficult test image. But I have seen the same
artifacts with real JPGs as well if there are hard
lines in the image (buildings, wires, waves, fine
patterns etc).
I've seen similar results here too, burning perhaps a hundred DVDs in the last few weeks. The goal was to compare DVD slideshows created by iMovie, Photo to Movie and FotoMagico. Matti's conclusions look familiar.
My tests used photos that are the most difficult for iMovie to handle, lots of hard lines, buildings, wires, fences, roof lines, etc.
When the goal is to burn a DVD, Photo to Movie consistently delivers good quality with a variety of source images. The quality is good across a range of image sizes and content. If you like working in Photo to Movie, you can be quite confident you'll get good results.
But I like working in iMovie, so the goal of my tests was to find a way to make iMovie work better. The solution was to downsize the image before importing it to iMovie.
As Matti suggested, iMovie delivers good results if the source image is downsized before importing to iMovie. Virtually all flicker is eliminated by downsizing to 640x480 (NTSC) or 768x578 (PAL). (Downsize less if you plan to use a 2x or greater Ken Burns zoom.)
Downsizing is easily done with iPhoto's File > Export command. It takes just a few seconds to export new copies of photos at the new size.
So is Photo to Movie "better" than iMovie for slideshows? Sometimes Yes, if you don't want to resize problem images. But often not, at least from my tests. iMovie can deliver fine results too. And to be fair to iMovie, it has other advantages.
Note: Our tests may have little in common with the pictures you often shoot, the people pictures, the landscapes, the other "soft" images. They are WAY easier for iMovie to handle, and may not require downsizing. It depends on the photo's content.
Karl

Easy way to do the Ken Burns effect on still photos

I remember using iMovie's Ken Burns effect with great ease. With FCE, it seems really difficult to get the effect I want using still photos. Is there a quick and easy way to do this? All I want is a) to provide a motion increasing the size, and b) increase in size and move the photo slightly to the subject. Thanks.
Mike

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10741180&#10741180

Imovie templates, titles, ken burns effect wont render. why?

Hi I am having great issues.
Once my templates or ken burns effected pictures are in a timeline they wont render. Ive tried everything, but no rendering takes place. Just sits there and does nothing.
Ive even tried wiping imovie and reinstalling still does the same thing help!!!

Hi gregles76 - welcome to the forum!
Two possible angles on this:
1. You are not applying the KB effect correctly - make sure you are following the procedure shown in this tutorial:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/im3-2.html
2. Were you trying to change the setting on photos that already have a KB effect applied? If you were, and you have emptied the iMovie trash after creating KB effects on your photos, you will not be able to further modify the setting, because of the way iMovie deals with the photos.

"Ken Burns" imovie 06 project opened in FCE 4

Opening an iMovie 06 project in FCE 4 works great, except I'm confused about still photos to which I had added the Ken Burns affect to in iMovie. In FCE they still move as expected when just viewing the timeline, but when I open up Motion tab for an image in the Viewer, there is no Scaling or Centering listed. I thought maybe FCE converts photos to movies to maintain the effect, but they are still just JPGs.
How are these images moving, if there is nothing changed in the Motion tab!?
I'm hoping to make some quick Ken Burns effect slideshow in iMovie and then do more editing in FCE...
Thanks!

I have no chance to test it now on my Mac, but it seems strange to me that FCE can convert Ken Burn effects from an iMovie project into FCE Motion keyframes. FCE more likely imports an already rendered motion clip from iMovie. Probably it also imports the original JPGs, but the clip you are viewing in the timeline is more likely a clip where the original Ken Burn Effect cannot be modified.
In any case you can do a simple test: create a test iMovie project with a single image, apply the KB effect to that image, import that project into a new test FCE project: it's then easy to check what is and what is not imported.
Piero

How can I stop iMovie from automatically cropping and applying kens burns to my photos?

When I import stills into iMovie, it automatically adds a kens burns effect to each photo, and crops them. If I want to get rid of these effects, I have to do it manually for each individual photo. This takes alot of time and is very tedious to do. Is there a way that I can stop iMovie from automatically adding these effects? Or maybe a way that I can undo these effects on all photos at the same time?

in the iMovie Project settings/pref, you can switch-off the automatic applying of KB

How can I turn off the ken burns effect on iMovie? If I crop the picture it still persists!

I cannot turn off ken burns on iMovie for the life of me! Everyone is telling me to fit the photo or stop it, which I have done. However, when cropped the ken burns effect is still there in full force!!! What can I do to turn off this dreadful effect?

iMovie forum for an answer from the users in there who will most likely be able to help you out faster : https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/imovie

Ken Burns Effects Don't Work in iMovie HD (I've Tried Everything)

Version:
OS X 10.4.10
iMovie 6
*Hardware 1:*
PowerMac G4 Dual 500 Mhz, 1GB RAM, Internal 40GB HDD and Internal 320 GB HDD
*Hardware 2:*
PowerBook G4 500 Mhz, 512MB RAM, Internal 20 GB HDD
Problem:
This problem occurs on both of my G4 Macs. In iMovie HD, I imported a JPEG from iPhoto with Ken Burns Effects on. The still photo appeared properly in the Clip Viewer initially, but appeared as a black screen in the iMovie Monitor. Once the imported photo with the Ken Burns Effects completed rendering, the clip in the Clip Viewer turned white and appeared as a white screen in the iMovie Monitor. I have tried almost everything I read about in these forums in search of a resolution.
*Resolutions that Failed:*
1. The photo is definitely a .jpg
2. Tried importing the actual .jpg file as well as importing from iPhoto.
3. QuickTime and all other Software updates have been applied and are running on the most current release.
4. Repaired disk permissions.
5. Created, saved and manipulated the iMovie file in the standard Movie Folder on my main internal hard drive. (i.e. – I'm not saving to an external HDD)
6. Created, saved and manipulated the iMovie file in the standard Movie Folder on my secondary internal hard drive. (i.e. – I'm not saving to an external HDD)
7. Deleted the 'mac.imovie.plist' file and created a new one.
8. Attempted to do apply the effects logged on as a different user.
9. Saved file, restarted machine and reopened numerous times but the problem persists.
10. Tried a lower resolution photo and the problem persists.
11. Attempted to import all the photos I planned to use, added transitions to all of the clips and rendered completely. Saved the file, restarted the machine and reopened the file with no change to the blank clips.
12. The iMovie trash emptying issue did nothing to help.
*Additional Notes:*
1. The problem is confined to the Ken Burns Effects in iMovie. I am able to work with true video clips without incident.
2. Ken Burns Effects operate properly in iPhoto 6 using the slideshow functionality.
3. I would use iPhoto, but it seems like it would be easier to line up specific sections of an audio track with certain Ken Burns Effects in iMovie. (i.e. – a crescendo at the 16 second mark of the audio track coincides with the end of a 'zoom' on a photo, transition from second 16-17 second mark, new photo at the 17 second mark and pan left to right from 17 second mark to the 25 second mark.) Point is that it lines up precisely with the markers on the audio track, which seems far easier to do in iMovie than iPhoto.
4. Please help me, I'm going nuts troubleshooting this bug! I can't find any resolution that works.
Thanks in advance for the help.
Message was edited by: Charlie Brown Jr.

Hmmm. You seem to have tried, without success, most if not all of the methods of resolving a Ken Burns black screen issue.
Some thoughts that have occurred to me:
1. Perhaps your G4 500mhz Mac is not fast enough. I think that the minimum spec for iLife '06 is 733mhz. Might have nothing to do with this problem, but I just mention it.
2. Are the sizes of your images too large, as can happen with some of these new high def cameras? iMovie has trouble working with very large images.
3. Do you have any 3rd pary plug-ins, particularly in Quick Time, that could be causing a conflict?
4. Do you have enough disk space for the project to operate?
5. Have you done a recent Quick Time update? Some users have reported a problem with that.
6. From your post, it appears that you have continuously worked within the same iMovie file that exhibits the Ken Burns problem. If this is true, try creating a new iMovie project and experimenting with a few clips to see if the problem persists in the new project.
Ken Burns issues can be very frustrating. I think that you will need to keep trying things until something works. Wish I could be more help, but perhaps some of the tech experts on this forum will have some workable suggestions.
There is an application called Photo to Movie that reputedly has a far better Ken Burns type of effect. If you can't resolve your problem, you might try downloading that app. I believe that it offers a demo download.
Good luck.

Imovie 10 modify ken burns

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